Diet Soap - a podcast

Diet Soap - a podcast


Latest Episodes

Symptomatic Redness: Symbolic Kinship (pt. 2)
July 20, 2017

The Symptomatic Redness podcast presents conversations on political economy and history. Hosted by C. Derick Varn and Amogh Sahu, the program was an independent project for several years but is now hosted by Zero Books on the Zero Squared podcast feed....

Zero Squared #118: Tweets, White Genocide, and Free Speech
July 13, 2017

George Ciccariello-Maher is a professor of Politics and Global Studies at Drexel University, the author of We Created Chavez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution, and at the center of ongoing twitter storms.

Zero Squared #117: Beyond the Black Body (pt. 1)
July 06, 2017

RL Stephens is an organizer in Chicago, founding editor of Orchestrated Pulse, and the A. Philip Randolph Fellow at Jacobin. His essay The Birthmark of Damnation: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Black Body was published in May at Viewpoint Magazine and is the...

Inside Zero Books # 37: IdPol and Workerism
July 02, 2017

In this week's Inside Zero Books podcast C Derick Varn returns to discuss IdPol and workerism. Topics covered include the rise of the DSA, the failure of the left in the 20th century, the problem of capitalism,

Zero Squared #116: Shoving the Russia Conspiracy
June 29, 2017

Michael Tracey is a reporter for TYT politics and a freelance journalist who has written for Vice, The Nation, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, The Intercept, and The New Republic, along with many other publications.

Zero Squared #115: The Evergreen Struggle Sessions
June 21, 2017

This week’s episode of the Zero Books podcast features a conversation with Professor Pete Bohmer from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Evergreen has been in the news lately as students have protested professor Brett Weinstein over an ema...

Zero Squared #114: Comey’s Dismissal and Trump’s Incompetence
June 14, 2017

Margaret Kimberley discusses the dismissal of Comey, the character of Trump, and how the left needs to break with the DNC. A regular columnist for the Black Agenda Report, Margaret Kimberley is also a regular guest on the podcast. It’s Wednesday,

Zero Books Posadist Special
June 08, 2017

This week’s Zero Books podcast features a conversation with Comrade Communicator from the Intergalactic Worker’s League. Posadism is an ideology or movement born out of the Fourth International and headed by a certain J. Posadas, who,

Zero Squared #112: Reframing Trump
May 31, 2017

Chris Cutrone is the founder and President of the Platypus Affiliated Society. He is also the author of the rather infamous essay “Why Not Trump?” and he recently led a panel discussion entitled “The Crisis of Neoliberalism” as part of the Platypus Aff...

Zero Squared #111: Michael Tracey on Russia Collusion and Obstruction
May 24, 2017

Michael Tracey is a reporter for TYT politics and a freelance journalist who has written for Vice, The Nation, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, The Intercept, and The New Republic, along with many other publications.